Sex & the City

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I’ll admit this up front: I watch Sex & the City.

I don’t watch it, however, because I enjoy the silly comedic moments or the idiot-savant romantic insights of Carrie fucking Bradshaw. Instead, I watch Sex & the City because after working 8 hours in the office and up to another 5 hours at home and spending another 3 hours sewing beads on my dance regalia, there are only three things that can put a smile on my face:

Sex. I don’t have a girlfriend and I’m too lazy for one night stands, so this is out.

Pancakes. Under the imminent threat of diabeetus and weight gain, I usually don’t eat bread after noon if I can help it.

Self-destructive behavior of unreasonable white women. This is the living definition of Sex & the City.

Figure 1: Vaginitus Douchebitchicus Caucasus Maximus Quadruplicus.

I was perfectly content to watch the four unattractive hags* that star in the show blunder their way through life from now until the Rapture. The general unhappiness of these women made me happy enough to overlook the implausibility of four essentially sociopathic women all having very successful careers that involve – get this – dealing with other people.

Then I had an epiphany: Sex & the City is a white woman’s visual manifesto of classism and racism.

For now, I’m going to skip the classism part because if I were to contemplate it long enough, I will lose my shit. So instead I’ll just focus on the flagrant racism in this motherfucking show.

In my memory, there were four black characters who had speaking parts that lasted more than ten damn seconds – and this is where the racism starts. Sex & the City’s conspicuously unrealistic absence of black people in NEW YORK CITY is surpassed only by that of the partial-birth abortion of a show called ‘Friends’. The popularity among white women of these shows combined with the popularity of New York shows us exactly what white women are looking for:

Figure 2: Fuckers.

But let’s get beyond that and look at the few black characters that were in the show.

Brother and Sister: there was an episode where Samantha (the village bicycle of the show) decided to date a black guy. I can’t remember what he did for a living, but I’m pretty sure I remember it involving sports, and he was very successful. He was an all around good guy.

This man had a sister – a very attractive black woman who, I shit you not, spent the entire show yelling, waving her neck, and snapping her fingers at Samantha loudly and in inappropriate venues telling her that she didn’t want to see “another good brother taken by a white girl.” In the end, it was actually the MAN who capitulated to his sister’s wishes and broke up with Samantha.

What black people see: a white woman taking yet another of the endangered species of good, eligible black men, and the sister rightly getting her brother to come to his senses.

What white people see: domineering racist ghetto negro wench hates white people for no good reason, and her weak willed negro man-child of a brother is too much of a pussy to stand up to her. Black women are crazy, black men are sissies.

Navy Boy: in one episode, the four Itchy Vaginas come across a bunch of model-worthy male sailors wearing Navy jumpers walking around aimlessly in midtown, because apparently this shit happens all the fucking time. The sailors invite the IVs to some party that night. The main character, Carrie, spends the whole time at the party dancing with some black pretty boy sailor from Louisiana who looks like a shrunken-down version of The Rock wearing a fruity sailor outfit.

At the end of the night, Carrie and The Pebble are talking outside the lounge. Sounding like a lost puppy, the guy asks her, in nearly as many words, “can I please come home with you tonight?” Carrie, who has had uncountably many one night stands with dudes straight out of hotchickswithdouchebags.com, rejects this guy – opting instead to go home and, for all I know, masturbate to videos of black men being attacked with dogs and fire hoses during the March to Montgomery.

What black people see: black man far and away out of Carrie’s league gets rejected by her for no particular reason at all. Sheer racism (or comeuppance, since overly attractive black men should not be passing up black women to fuck with white girls that look like an incarnate Australopithecus exhibit.)

What white people see: horny black navy boy is on shore leave and wants to invade the Antarctic. Carrie, who is pure and white as the driven snow, rejects his coontastical advances and remains ever unpenetrated by the black torpedo.

Sports Man: GASP! A RECURRING BLACK CHARACTER! That’s right everybody, Sex & the City featured for several episodes a dark, intelligent, extremely well-paid, highly educated black man with more moral character than Jesus himself…dating Miranda, aka the fugliest of member of the cast, for several weeks.

FIgure 3: I saw her face, and my dick evaporated.

Sports man is called ‘Sports Man’ because he’s an orthopedist for the Knicks. This makes sense because black men can’t be successful unless it either directly or obliquely involves sports. Miranda is constantly getting jealous of Sports Man because all the white cheerleaders on the Knicks are all over his jock. But he remains ever faithful to this red headed sea monster, eventually even popping the ‘L’ word on her. She freaks out, and breaks up with him to make babies with Woody Allen’s ugly twin.

What black people see: a ferociously attractive, successful, and loyal black man gets his heart farted on by the last living child of the corn in a combination of bullshit, racism, and karma.

What white people see: the Superman of black people is not good enough even for the ugliest, most judgmental, type A ho-bag in the entire Itchy Vagina Ensemble. Black people are shit. High five!

I can’t fucking take it anymore. It’s time for me to drive to NYC and scalp Sarah Jessica Parker.

Figure 4: Maybe there’s a fourth thing that can put a smile on my face…

*My father hates Sarah Jessica Parker and everything about her. If you ever meet the terrifying man that is my father and you want to immediately make him like you – insult Sarah Jessica Parker. If you want him to LOVE you, call her an “intolerable horse-faced pussy smuggler who belongs in a zoo rather than on television”.

i’m a HUGE fan of “Sex in The City” (which my sister always makes fun of me by saying I should be wathing “Girlfriends” instead) – but I still found this post HILARIOUS. I often wondered why there weren’t many/any black people on the show but this didn’t/doesn’t/hasn’t stopped me from watching and enjoying it. Love the part of the post that said what black people saw vs what white people saw…again THE TRUTH.

p.s. black guy #1 that was dating Samantha was an A&R and the black guy dating Miranda was Blair Underwood.

love the blog!

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Admiral Furious(17:45:19) :

Hold up hold up… I just read this shit three times… and my stomach hurts from laughter!

This dude said said… he saw the red headed girl… and he didn’t just experience shrinkage… THE MOTHER FUCKER CEASED TO HAVE SOLID OR LIQUID PROPERTIES!!!!!!!!! odsfingseil;fgns.gnsldifkgns.dg

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Lolo(17:54:18) :

THANK YOU Chris. Now I can finally get some shit done today while laughing myself silly over “last living child of the corn” and “pussy smuggler” and what may be my fave, “village bicycle”. Honestly, Carrie and Miranda were the Dickinators, weren’t they? Thank god that the writers never managed to put together an accidental threesome with them and Mr. Big.

I always hated this show and Friends!! How can you tape a show in NYC and there not be ANY black people. Did they shoo them off the sets? Maybe they had security direct all folks who did not pass a paper bag test to walk on the other side of the street….

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knaturalbeauty(17:58:51) :

wow. I always had a love/hate relationship with Sex and the City, for those same reasons. I hate how they blatantly stuck Black characthers in there, probably just to shut us up. Blair Underwood wouldn’t date a mis-shapened redhead, sorry. Unrealistic. Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a foot, as said by Peter Griffin on Family Guy. That chick Charlotte has a real-life sextape by-the-way.

side note: I appreciate that you take time to write these posts, considering all the things you do (or claim to do) :)
you do need a Black girlfriend; she’ll not only take care of 1 & 2, but maybe even help sew beads.

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Tamara(17:59:16) :

“..But he remains ever faithful to this red headed sea monster, eventually even popping the ‘L’ word on her…”

*dead*

I nearly spit out my water on the computer screen at work. Chris, you are going to get me fired.

I can’t afford that, this a work study gig.

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Esdotto(18:04:10) :

I agree that the show is stewed garbaj, but 1 of the 4 looks straight. And as a member of the 233 year old US Army, i have no sympathy for that seaman that got blocked. That’s what he gets for being in the navy. HAHA!

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Esdotto(18:05:11) :

(1 of the 4 = the brunette)

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Tamara(18:07:59) :

wait wait, I just had a visual of Sarah Jessica Parker (or My little pony as some like to refer to her) and I can’t. Not today.

Haysoos take the wheel and drive me far away from here.

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Lady(18:15:06) :

I always wondered how in the hell they would put Blair Underwood on that show and have the audacity to have him date Miranda, the fugliest one as you so well put, who has an infant son.. and then fall in love w/ her to boot.

I can’t stand that damn show because like Peter Griffin said, SJP looks like a foot. Her character is a whiny pain in the ass. As far as i know the one who can never find a man (Charlotte) is a PITA as well.. Samantha is a slore and who cares about Miranda..

At least they had THAT many black people on the show though. Friends only had one, and she was on like 2 episodes..

I don’t think the Black men were put on there to appease Black viewers. 1) no one gives a fuck about Black viewers. 2) Most of the Black viewers were women and the LAST thing we were wishing for was more fugly White woman on Black man action!

@Knatural: THE Blair Underwood is married to a sister. But “A Blair Underwood type” would DEFINITELY date a fugly lesbionic chick like Miranda. A lot of brothers would gladly break their chins trying to motorboat her non existant titties.

Jennifer Hudson is in the SITC movie. She slimmed down a bit from Dreamgirls and from what I have seen, rocks a great wardrobe in the film. She will still be a “big girl” compared to those anorexic trollops and I hope she is not the “sassy Black woman”.

i don’t know what’s funnier the fact that you called them “itchy vaginas” or the pussy smuggler comment.

lmao.

my mother hates her too. everytime she sees a commercial, or an ad for her (ugly) clothes she grimaces. HARD.
and then makes random comments about people resembling baboon’s asses and such.

i actually enjoy sex and the city despite the lack of black people on there. for some reason it may me smile to see women i would never meet, living the life i would never lead, wearing shoes i would only be able to afford if i sold my ass and my first born.

blame imperalism. i do.

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Grimm(18:35:13) :

LOL… New York is diverse, but it is very segregated/racist. The only time you do see black people in the village, at mommy and me, on the upper east side, or any other place they frequent, they are nannies or doormen. The one’s walking past get looked at funny. When you bulidings in white areas, rich white women will wait for you to press the elevator button because they assume youre the clerk.

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Merri Lee(18:35:24) :

I was perfectly content two watch the four unattractive hags* that star in the show blunder their way through life from now until the Rapture.
*****************************

But you know she will be right. I think i heard she was playing an assistant? You know someone is going to ask her to do something and she’s going to have to give someone a side eye, switch her hips extra hard, or give some kind of attitude… cause that’s what we do *snaps my fangers* haaaaay.

I am a huge Sex and the City fan, and can not wait for the movie! Me and my girls have been planning to dress up and get drinks the weekend it opens.

I did notice the covert racism on the show, but for my viewing pleasure I just pretend it doesn’t exist. Its so much easier that way. Sometimes, being black and constantly aware of my blackness is tiring. Sometimes its nice to identify with people on other levels, and S&TC helped me to realize thet women of all races are going through the same bull.

Anywhoo, I thought the sailor dude was latino. Maybe he’s “Creole,” like so many people on here claim to be? (And isnt that just another fancy way to skirt around the fact that they’ve got black blood and nappy roots anyway? )

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Lady(18:48:08) :

At least no one has yet said they enjoy Seinfeld………………….

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knaturalbeauty(18:50:12) :

benjie, YES, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
and he told her he loved her…via a cookie-cake! That’s love.
That show really made me appreciate Blair Underwood’s* acting skills.

*The real Blair Underwood, not his character – thanks Toldja [I thought I was a know-it-all] :)

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stuffblackpeoplehate(18:51:19) :

I friggin’ love Seinfeld, even after the Michael Richards negro love fest.

I hate myself.

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Machete(18:54:17) :

Echo your post Dom!

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Tamara(18:55:13) :

@ Grimm, I don’t think NY is that racially segregated/diverse. I’ve been black people every where in NYC and the white people don’t usually pay us any mind. I live in a suburb outside outside of NYC that prides itself on racial diversity, but clearly every group (even down to religious groups) lives in a specific area. And there are definitely places that I won’t even venture to because I don’t have time for yt giving me the side eye.

A city I think that definitely fits that bill though is Boston. I visited a friend there and I was like “where are all the black people?” They were far and few to be found.

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Machete(18:56:19) :

Haha, I too happen to have enjoyed Seinfeld.
Even Fraiser and Drew Carey, at one point or another – mostly in my broke-ass-cant-afford-cable student days.

*pats on the back* It’s all good, while we’re confessing I actually love Friends, I used to *love* Frasier (who aided in giving us the wonder gift of girlfriends! , Will & Grace (another population blackie = zero show).

I could never get into Seinfeld though, I just don’t find any of them funny.

@ DOM- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Can I be Creole too? I am light-skinned with confused hair, and I am tired of not having any good explination for it. I can learn French and start cooking bengets(SP)?

Voulez voulez coucher et vi fromage biscuits avec moi?

*serious face*

I am just kidding. The Creole people have a very rich history and tradition.

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Fruity Pebble(19:09:17) :

My white friends shoot me looks of horror and disbelief when I tell them I’ve never seen a single episode. I can’t co-sign anything that pretends Sarah Jessica Parker looks even half-way decent, let alone “hot.” I just can’t. Her face is just…disturbing. And, much as I love him, Peter Griffin stole the foot-face joke from Paul Mooney’s stand-up routine.

“Carrie, who has had uncountably many one night stands with dudes straight out of hotchickswithdouchebags.com, rejects this guy – opting instead to go home and, for all I know, masturbate to videos of black men being attacked with dogs and fire hoses during the March to Montgomery”.

LMAO!!!

*And lmao @ “No one gives a fuck about black viewers”!

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Dom(19:12:57) :

Tamara-

TOO TRUE! I live in Boston and can’t believe its so segregated, even though I’ve lived here my entire life.

I came home about a year ago, after graduating, and I know that if I want to get ahead professionally, this is where I need to be. As far as socially, black people are iced out, and I know I’ve got to move if I want to have more than a handful of places to visit on a saturday night. Or if I want to raise kids who have any sense of self pride.

Its good to see you folks talking about DC though, cuz Ive been thinking about makin that move in a year or so. As much as you complain about love and the PG County, you dont know what I would give to be able to leave my house and not feel like the only black person in the whole damn sate!

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judd(19:19:11) :

sarah jessica parker is the ugliest fucking woman in hollywood! with all that money, you’d think she’d be able to do something about that nose. but her face looks like it got run over by a truck, so it wouldn’t matter anyway.

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Grimm(19:28:47) :

As ugly as everyone think SJP is, she does have a nice body, and so does Kristen Davis… I cant defend Cynthia Nixon though.

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knaturalbeauty(19:31:07) :

Footface has the body of a thirteen year old boy, she smokes, and has bony feet.

My dad, being the Masochist that he is, watched SATC all the time. And he would look at it in disbelief: “Sarah Jessica Parker is not sexy! She looks like a horse that fucked a cockroach!” is what he would say.

The guy that played that creole sailor was Daniel Sunjata. He is Black/German/Irish.

I HATE HATE HATE ‘Friends’. I thought that show was a blatant rip-off of ‘Living Single’, so I could never really get into that show. Matter of fact, I think both shows were created by the same studio, Warner Brothers. Jennifer Anniston looks like a beat-up cocker-spaniel to me too.

I loved Fraiser though. All the snobbery on that show cracked me up.

I have to confess, one of my favorite YT shows is still “Roseanne”, well at least the 4th-7th seasons before Roseanne’s egotistical ass took over and totally ruined the show.

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Lady(19:56:32) :

Roseanne was that ish…

Friends =/= Living Single, i never got that from the show… where are the similarities?

Hmm.. two guys that live upstairs.. two guys that live next door..
One of the guys from upstairs/next do fall in love/marry the girl from downstairs/across the hall..

That’s all I can come up with… so far.. but let me know what you got.

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stuffblackpeoplehate(19:57:07) :

“As ugly as everyone think SJP is, she does have a nice body…”

Her body is absolutely atrocious. She looks like a survivor of Andersonville. Sex with her would be like making love to a bag of charcoal. The girl is just too damn skinny.

Not to say that I dig fat chicks; I personally like mine right in between. But in the words of The Devil:

“Fat chicks are like scooters. They’re fun to ride, but you don’t want your buddies to catch you on one.”

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Esquire(20:00:26) :

If you want to see REAL segregation, come down to SC.

We dont even PRETEND to be racially diverse. There’s “private clubs” blacks and “others” (which means hispanics because we have little else) cant even get into.

Kristin Davis/Charlotte did always have a decent ass for a white girl, and from those photos her ex-boyfriend released, she isn’t afraid to step up to the mic, but that’s neither here nor there, cause she seems annoying.

@ Lady: To me, the similarities between the two shows came from folks in their 20’s finding their way in NYC. Living Single had more of a female perspective than Friends. They just seemed to tweak the formula just so, but I could definitely see it.

Point of correction (because I’m a SITC nerd / fan, despite having some serious beefs with the show, and they’re basically what you have outlined above):

“male sailors wearing Navy jumpers walking around aimlessly in midtown, because apparently this shit happens all the fucking time.”

No, not all the time, just during Fleet Week, which is when that particular episode takes place.

Point of clarification:

the guy asks her, in nearly as many words, “can I please come home with you tonight?”

The guy was also like 22. I stopped wanting to f*ck 22 when I was 24. Young is not sexy. Desperate and young even less so.

I’ll also vouch for the world that SITC inhabits. NYC really is that segregated that in some parts of town you do not see black folks who aren’t on the periphery if they are there at all. (Now that I think about it, what’s up with the now-cancelled “Girlfriends”? No Asians or Latins on a show set in L.A.?)

That said, they still could have done better than the finger snapping sister complaining about white girls taking all the ‘good brothas.’

“Fat chicks are like scooters. They’re fun to ride, but you don’t want your buddies to catch you on one.”

rotflmbao.

oh god… that brought a tear to my eye.

my fav show of all time is married with children. it was completely un-pc. i learned to hate the french because of al bundy.

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Grimm(20:20:49) :

Her body is absolutely atrocious…Sex with her would be like making love to a bag of charcoal. The girl is just too damn skinny-Chris

Dag Chris. How do you really feel? Everyone says they want someone in between until she gets pregnant/lazy and ventures across that thin line… Thats when they start cheating with a skinny chick.
Did you really mean small waist and a fat butt??

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Lady(20:21:55) :

Girlfriends is/was a waste of airtime.

That is all.

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Anmarie(20:23:50) :

Frasier = Best show ever with no black people. But it takes place in Seattle so rightfully so.

Blair Underwood and Miranda….. Blair Underwood and Miranda…. the humanity.

It’s about time someone indentified Sara Jessica Parker as the missing link, she’s been walking amoungst us unchecked for far to long.

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stuffblackpeoplehate(20:26:39) :

“Did you really mean small waist and a fat butt??”

I mean small waist and PHAT butt. Fat is completely unacceptable. I don’t want people thinking I’m smuggling Cubans into the country in my lady’s bum-haunches.

OMFG…went through this post again and almost died of laughter within 2 paragraphs

* What black people see: black man far and away out of Carrie’s league gets rejected by her for no particular reason at all. Sheer racism (or comeuppance, since overly attractive black men should not be passing up black women to fuck with white girls that look like an incarnate Australopithecus exhibit.)

* What white people see: horny black navy boy is on shore leave and wants to invade the Antarctic. Carrie, who is pure and white as the driven snow, rejects his coontastical advances and remains ever unpenetrated by the black torpedo.

Coontastical….LOL

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voodoobooty(20:31:40) :

That Blair Underwood and Miranda thing did not shock me at all. I have seen some fine as hell black men with some ugly pinched looking white women all over New York – that shit is an epidemic in park slope – the mecca of interracial couples.

And yes there are plenty of places in Ny where the caste system is in full effect and you only see people of color as janitors and nannies, so in the world they rolled in, that is true.

And yes! I loved Frasier too, I actually care about what books people have read, there is nothing wrong with having education and reading requirements. He cracked me – Niles too.

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ninasimone(20:34:04) :

Chris, I need you to understand something here…I study for the USMLE Step1 6-8 hours a day these days and I die a little bit each day…but you REVIVE ME!!!!
Hence the marriage proposal from before. Dude, Im sooo super serious ( you have me alliteration-ing even)

@ Voodoo- Man, many a day has been tainted by venturing over to Park Slope and Ft Greene and seeing some brother with some foot faced White gal. That, among other reasons, is why I am happy to live in Bed Stuy! Give me Pookie and Nay Nay and Dawn (that is my block crackhead’s name) over Miranda and Blair anyday!

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Lady(20:38:24) :

(D)

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Deviant(20:40:49) :

Too fuckin’ funny

Between the “coontastical adventures”, your dick evaporating at the sight of miranda’s face, and the pussy smuggler , I nearly died!

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Toyz(20:41:53) :

i can’t breathe. LMAO!

I love the show but I think it’s mostly because I’m a New Yorker in DC missing the hell out of NYC. And as racist as they were, those b*tches wore some bad ass shoes.

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nyc(20:42:58) :

Anyone find it kind of funny that some of the “beaus” in real life like black women? case in point: Chris Noth and Halle Berry’s baby daddy.

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CEASE(20:43:53) :

by far your funniest post yet. LMAO!!!!

*rolls over*
*dies*

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ninasimone(20:45:01) :

co-sign Benji on your posts!!!

and LOL!!!!!!! at your sewing on beads for three hours! THe visual!!! cursing..swearing…achy fingers!!!

don’t even get me started on the new kids…
i’m tempted to go to their concert in east rutherford, n.j
but miley cyrus is gonna be there.

and i’d rather eat my own shit than see her.

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letinstar(20:52:15) :

*hanging my head in shame*…i never missed an episode of sex and the city but in my defense, i had gay, white guy roommate at the time and this was a sunday night ritual for us…

this is hilarious shit you wrote and so true…i did always wonder why in all of nyc these 4 sluts didn’t diversity their dating pool and was so over it when they chose blair underwood’s character to become involved with the fugliest one of the bunch…

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thebusinesswoman(20:52:27) :

I have some royal blue rubber riding boots by sarah jessica parker’s clothing line

@ TBW- That sounds cute! I went all the way to some wack mall in Manhattan to check out her line, and all the cute ish was gone. I forgot all about it, cause that was last summer. I may try again.

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thebusinesswoman(20:54:47) :

I also own the full dvd set of every season of this show (my college buddy used to work at blockbuster and hooked me the fuck up)

And…

I sometimes watch episodes on On-Demand just because

More Silence

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thebusinesswoman(20:56:35) :

@ Sista

Girl they are fly. I be wearing them bitches, and always get compliments. I got em’ in Orange County in some promenade type thing.

Rubber shoes and nope it aint raining. Only in America (Cali)

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D(21:06:18) :

HAHA nice post, some of the girls I know swear by this retarded show and move to NY thinking that life is like that – it sets up chicks for a horrible reality check.

Things I hate:
1) As mentioned, no diversity in their casting.
2) These girls have high-paying jobs, but are never in the office.
3) Their outrageously large apartments – yes, i’m jealous.
4) Constant plug of named brands I have never heard before.
5) In general, gives a horrible perspective on what life is really like in the Apple.

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Anmarie(21:08:43) :

Basically people who earn that much money, don’t have time to have 3 hour lunches everyday to shoot the sh~t

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letinstar(21:12:15) :

i live in boston..roxbury to be exact…and we are here…but boston is has always been segregated…although now, roxbury, which was once primarily a “black”area is starting to diversify…every day i see some white person jogging or walking their dog through the neighborhood…

now if you want to talk about where the black ain’t…i lived in phoenix, az for 14 years…( i just moved back to boston last year)…when i would see a black person, i would beeline over just to say “hello, you’re not alone”…

yes, there are black people in boston..i should know because i ride the bus home with them and am subjected to all that loud talking and the low riding pants every day and night…for goodness sakes, a brother got on the bus last night with a chicken wing hanging out of his mouth!

@Miss Ray, I live in Rockland. I’m not talking about just talking about black being divers; I’m talking internationally. We have people from all over, Latin American/Hispanic immigrants, Africans, the Caribbean, European immigrants etc.

Chris, really. I need you to be with me so you can teach me more about my Native American heritage and stuff. The sex will just be a extra… :)

I have never seen SATC. I have no desire to see any episodes nor the movie. I couldn’t really get into Girlfriends, either, I guess I just couldn’t relate to any of the characters. I did like to stare at Khalil Kane, though, I’ve loved him since he was Raheem. :)

What was I saying? Oh, yeah. A sistah DOES watch Will and Grace (I wanna be Karen when I grow up) and Frasier, though. And I will stop what I am doing to watch Living Single (which was the inspiration for Friends, IMO) and A Different World.

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Done2Death(21:48:15) :

OK, alright. I love sex and the city, sue me, I’m an itchy vagina too! (your def of a woman with issues) And as in many cases of successful white shows, they invariably always imulate a previous black show or imulate black people. It’ s like Bill Clinton being the first black president.(Let just chill out). The only modern show that was really about white people was Seinfeld and I am not sure that was really about white people or something black made white again. Anyway, it is not just SATC, but 90 % of all media in american caters to white society. Television being number 1 in visual consumption, next cable, magazine, newspapers and radio! BTW, they neva eva eva show that episode when Samantha is dating that black man, so if you don’t have it in on dvd, you wont see it.

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Angry ver. 3.2 (Beta)(21:48:28) :

This….is so effing hilarious that I just about peed myself reading it. 10 out of 10, sir…

And for the record, they could have at the very least picked AT LEAST ONE mildly attractive woman for the cast. Sarah Jessica Parker is so busted it makes my uvula hurt.

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maya(21:50:43) :

LMAO! SATC was my favorite show when it was on-air. Now I can’t stand it for these very reasons. This show exists in an alternate world where there are no minorities in NYC and you can fuckin’ afford Jimmy Choo Manolo Blanik shoes in an NYC apartment on a writer’s salary. As a writer, I must say: FUCK HBO.

I couldn’t get into SATC because I lived on campus in college. The dorms didn’t get HBO; the only place on campus that did was the convent. Watching SATC with nuns is…awkward, and I couldn’t figure out why they were laughing at the sex jokes.

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Admiral Furious(22:35:08) :

Good gracious I missed alot. I do agree… Sarah Jessica Parker used to look good… but age has been far from nice to her. And I cannot get with her voice… I dunno what it is… but the whiney feline sounds that escape her mouth cause the hair on my neck to stand up.

I’m waiting for the crossover movie where Sex and the City meets Entourage. Good god that would be a mess.

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NotBlonde(22:35:32) :

I loved Sex and the City when it was on and I have the pink velvet case with every episode and extras…I like Carrie’s character and I really don’t think Miranda is the ugliest one. I think that goes for miss Sarah Jessica Parker and her horseface with the ginormous wart.

Although, to be honest, most women go through a time in their lives when they are exactly like one of those women, black/white/purple whatever.

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Jocolate(22:52:27) :

Damn, as much ho’ing as was going on there I thought there’d be more blacks than that. No temporary black girlfriend storyline at all I suppose.

SITC’s brunette isnt bad but I never got with that show or Friends as a black male. Some of the (mostly white/asian) girls around Houston who havent actually been to NYC really do think thats how life is.

I remember leaving the underground bbq joint at U of Houston w/a friend a few yrs back when a group of young Asians ran past us towards the tv. We thought something major was happening: war or famous death-related, Yao got hurt or something.

No, it just turns out that the group of 5 women and 2 guys wanted to catch the opening credit of Friends. I stood there amazed wondering what the chances were of a similar group of whites doing the same over a show about 6 Asian 20-somethings in NYC.

Aisha Tyler on Friends doesnt count, I saw the promos & an interview she did proudly proclaiming to be “the 1st Afro-American love interest on Friends.” I think her character was ping-ponged between Greg Kinnear & one of the regular cast. I guess she’s the ‘go-to-gal’ for such things now.

Many of the shows on US tv are adapted (if not straight ripped off foreign tv), I also thought Friends looked a bit Living Single-ish.

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Anmarie(23:50:11) :

@ NotBlonde

“Although, to be honest, most women go through a time in their lives when they are exactly like one of those women, black/white/purple whatever.”

Oh Cheese and Rice I hope not. I remember when that sess pool of a show first came on the tele, I asked my friends to shoot me if my life ever turned into that in my 30s. Loveless and jumping from bed to bed with one crazy bastard to the next, no thanks. And if the fantasy life isn’t crazy enough on a daily basis those girls go on long walks through the city wearing those super high heeled shoes. That’s why the men are so confused about how real life should be.

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Anmarie(23:59:24) :

Hey the twin towers are still in that new york sky line. Oh “my” pretty city, before W.H.O blew up America.

At one point and time n my life I watched sex and the city all the time…and news flash I’m BLACK…….I enjoyed the situtations they went through and if u ask me they were playin everyday people because everyone n the world r not beautiful and 4 them 2 find unattractive chacters was prefect…….. and if ur going 2 voice how u feel bout white shows not having black people on them then u should be sayin the same 4 girlfriends and y there r not many white people on them….other then when jon bestfriend got married 2 a white guy and she was going 2 have a baby and some other n there twisted marriage he left her but no one talks about white men takin our black women….tis world is so one sided……tsh tsh……

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Anmarie(00:54:47) :

Yes well in the real world unattractive people don’t have that much sex.

Yes well in the real world unattractive people don’t have that much sex-anmarie

In the real world unattractive people have the most sex… They develope some sort of talent (funny, smart, good at giving head etc.) and get the word out. I know more than a few unattractive people who were always the down low bust it baby or cum bucket to someone in a relationship with an attractive person. As they say “show me a beautiful woman and I’ll show you a man that’s tired of sleeping with her”

ahahahahaha cum bucket. so poetic.
Not sure if it was mentioned but the chicks on Girlfriends weren’t that cute either. Sure Joan has a huge ass, but those bug eyes are scary. Maya’s unbeweavably bony, and Toni’s attitude made her ugly. Lynn (sp?) was the cutest, albeit the craziest. Ok that’s enough of being shallow and judgmental for now.

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Christina(01:22:17) :

It seems like any show with 3 or more white women under 40 is unbearable to watch. Although I love Designing Women and The Golden Girls.

Frasier did have one black woman that was in more than one episode-Kim Coles from Living Single. She played his co-host and of course she talked too damn much.

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grimm(01:51:03) :

This is what happens to militant women who hate their jobs and need therapy

Glad the party is still rolling, cause I may be staying in tonight. I’s tired.

Girlfriends was HORRIBLE! They had some great story lines, but the writing was soooo painfully bad. Maya was just…a mess. Saying “Gurrrrrl” before everything and “okaaaaaay?” afterwards does not make it funny. The only thing I liked about that show was Maya’s husband, who was cute and Lynn, the Lisa Bonet/Denise Huxtable for the next generation. Oh, and Toni calling Maya’s baby everything under the sun but his name was funny. Beyond that, bleeeeech.

Living Single was and is the shiznit and I like Friends too, even though it stole LS’s premise and eventually, it’s timeslot. Kyle Barker was the gayyest man on televison before Queer Eye. I loved how they acted like that wasn’t the case. He was a CHOIR DIRECTOR for Godsakes!

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BaaNJi girl(01:57:10) :

ROTmflo’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@business woman “only in america (cali)” YEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

Chris thanks for ruining one of the only shows i consistently watched…”dick evaporated” stopppppppppppppppp i KAINT.

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Angry ver. 3.2 (Beta)(02:00:22) :

First and foremost – unattractive people might have sex, but SITC does not portray everyday people. I didn’t look at the name but whoever wrote it was on some narcotics. Four homely, mediocre-to-bad looking women do not befriend eachother and then have copious amounts of sex with the entirety of the white male population of NYC, save for a few sports-related black men every three seasons. Put down the bottle of valium and open thine eyes, please.

Secondly – the notion by grimm that “show me a beautiful woman and I’ll show you a man that’s tired of sleeping with her” is completely baseless and nearly 100% false. I happen to be in a relationship that has achieved engagement and will be approaching marriage within the next year or so with what I consider a Dime Piece. I don’t think I need to get into details of what goes on in my personal life, but grimm…you’re wrong dude :)

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Anmarie(02:05:41) :

Hahahahahaha
You’re soooo right, you’re living the life. I dreamed of being a secretary ever since i saw the movie, the one where she takes a spanking from her boss. On monday I;m gonna march into my office and tell my assistant that I want to trade places with her. Matter of fact I’m going out to get coffee for my entire staff.

Yeah I always was hoping to hold down that job and meet my wife one day either in a jail cell, as a pizza delivery guy, or on the desk in an office butt-booty naked with some wonky r&b/jazz hybrid music in the background. :)

Either that, or every time I leave my door on a date some terrible-ass theme song plays, followed by four broads sitting down to coffee talking about getting run through for the 40th time in 2 weeks.

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Grimm(02:36:31) :

oh Anmarie… SMH you are too much.

I am happy with my side job (paid internship) with a very sucessful entertainment lawyer (will not say more for privacy), because my real job (you know what it is) is my passion. And I get paid vey well ($5000-$15000 per gig minus agency fees) for it. I can work as much or as little as I want, and get to travel around the world during the seasons (and between NYC and LA to see my ma), and still manage to pay my high NYC rent by myself.

Don’t knock me for doing something that relates to what I’m interested in doing once I’m older and tired of the industry. I have my whole life to chain myself to a desk. Would it be better if I were a hostess at Mr. Chow instead?

And BTW you shouldn’t look down on people who are career secretaries. You don’t know their stories. Sucess and happiness isn’t measured by your job title.

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Grimm(02:46:20) :

@Angry
with 1 in every 4 girls 18-24 being infected with at least one STD and girls becoming sexually active at the average age of 16, is it not plausible that an unmarried woman who has been actively dating for, say 20 years, would have like 42 sex partners? The show was popular because many women could relate. Maybe those Evangelists are right *shrug*.
And with half of all black girls having an STD and AIDS being the leading cause of death in african american women age 14-24, I’d say its safe to assume that black people are just as sexually active.
And finally, that is a popular saying. I’ve heard it. You’ve heard it. It must be based on some truth-even if you don’t think so.

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Anmarie(03:04:18) :

I know it would be better if I looked down on the non Creole portion of the nation and of course all the dark-skinned, big gals, and what else….? You’ll mention it later.

Nah I’m kidding

Anyway I don’t look down on career secretaries, Not sure where you get that I hate my job. I mean I’d love to be independantly wealthy but I said “fuck this job”, because I needed a nap. In an attempt to be not shallow it seems you’re looking way to deep.

However i do look down on beautiful women who manage to be soooooo boooring in bed, men get tired of sleeping with them. Not you, just in general. I’m just saying.

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loudmouthprotestant(03:45:19) :

I absolutely love that people have embraced the word coon for comic effect(I’ll wait for the grammar police on this one though I am pretty certain this is right.) Chris, I have to say “thank you” for making my Friday. This “Stuff” blog is the best of them all and I feel sorely sorry for people reading drivel and refusing to profess the greatness of your blog.

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grimm(03:47:30) :

anmarie
it took like 10 minutes for this 2 display on my phone. I guess its all the comments lately… anyway I can’t not say anything. I think I made enemies as soon I I revealed my heritage and job. You’ve been starting stuff all day…
tu á mauvias parce que tu et ne pas kreyolé…
I keed… I keed…

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Anmarie(03:54:12) :

Whatever dude i apologize earlier and attempted to move on, you started this up again. In anycase I’m bored now with your self obsession. Good night

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Anmarie(03:56:10) :

*apologized, shit it’s late I’m tired take yo ass to bed or to the club or something, stop bothering me. I’m not your enemy by the way.

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Angry ver. 3.2 (Beta)(04:35:23) :

Grimm:

No it isn’t plausible at all. To generalize the entire female population based on a statistic is similar to making an absolutist statement, also sometimes referred to as an assumption. You know what happens when you assume.

The show was popular because it allowed ordinary people to live vicariously through others – the same reason Star Magazine, the National Enquirer, and E! television are all popular. Everyday people with regular 9-to-5’s can’t relate to the 30 to 60 minutes of seemingly endless nightlife that occurs in that damn show; people feel like they can live their fantasy lives by watching and reading about those of celebrities.

I never heard that saying that you said before, until this evening when you wrote it. Also, for you to be claiming that 50% of black women are carrying some sort of STD or STI, I would expect you to cite some sort of journal or scientific research report. Unfortunately you didn’t do so, which leads me to believe it plausible that you pulled every statistic you named from deep inside your large intestine.

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Angry ver. 3.2 (Beta)(04:36:38) :

And your French? Horrendous.

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Mr. Smith(05:12:53) :

” I always was hoping to hold down that job and meet my wife one day either in a jail cell, as a pizza delivery guy, or on the desk in an office butt-booty naked with some wonky r&b/jazz hybrid music in the background.”

Are you following my life around Angry? :D

To the post… I had to get up and leave a few times because it was too damn funny. I couldn’t finish it. You have to be kidding me that the what I consider below average to mediocre middle aged white woman doesn’t try to go after her pipe dream? The whole show’s story got throw out of whack when Nicolette Sheridan did the monday night football opening with T.O. Please, little white girl with big black dude is all their fantasy. Extra points if it gets their white supremacist daddy riled up. Tv’s NY (SITC, Friends, Fraiser) is by NO MEANS anywhere near a 20% representation of the real NY. Even in the richest high tower parts.

Besides, Sarah Jessica Parker, who is SUPPOSED to be the “sexiest” of the four (that red head made me wanna pee myself. That was terrible.), and I don’t even want to have a dinner conversation with her. Get the fuck out of here with that trash.

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NotBlonde(05:48:53) :

@Anmarie

If you aren’t the type who believes in the “no sex before marriage” thing, you’ll find yourself in hell going on bad dates and meeting weird ass guys until the right one finally appears. I was really more referring to the dating thing and not the whoring around thing, because those chicks were SLUTS.

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london(06:43:40) :

had to wait til morning coffee to comment on this so here goes…
i have never watched and episode of sitc.. why? it looked shyte from the promos.. how does anyone not white female or white male and gay relate to it? black gay men do not trip over themselves to watch…
i cannot say i hated it because i didn’t watch it but i did hate the premise.. 4 aging whyte women trying to find love in the big apple…. give me a fucking break… i would rather watch charmed…
jennifer hudson in the movie.. 2 for one.. a black and fat presence… i will dig my heels in harder… dear god… drivel..
am surprised at all of you..
oh and if any of you caught that oh so british movie ‘notting hill’ you’ll be surprised to learn that notting hill has a very sizeable black community.. the notting hill carnival anyone? a damned shame… whytewash hogwash…
now where’s my coffee…. strong black & sweet as always…

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stuffblackpeoplehate(07:22:56) :

I am so fucking drunk and it’s all the Admrial’s fault.

I drank 1/3 a bottle of Kettel One. I feel like an American Soldier at the end of the Little Bighorn.

My white friend tries to talk to an Ethiopian girl and she claims she has a boyfriend. Six minutes later I walk by her and she grabs me by the arm, asking me why I haven’t talked to her. This enrages me. The room is spinning and I have no idea what the hell is going on – except that she just dissed my friend. I tell her that I’m going to perform the next Moon landing, and I need to concentrate. Please get off me before your poison ruins my ability to pilot the landing craft. I walk away.

There is a large man standing in front of the bathroom door. He looks like Earvin “Magic” Johnson. I ask him “hey man…what the hell ever happened to your show?” He looks at me with a modicum of disgust and confusion. I don’t particularly care, because I somehow know I am faster than him. I walk into a bathroom stall to find a girl giving a man head over a toilet. I say something to the effect of “don’t forget to wash your hands.”

I walk out of the bathroom area. A white woman is staring at me, and I’m pretty sure she’s thinking about stealing my land. She says “hey! I’m [insert white sounding name here]”. I reply “Greetings. We are Magnus Amplificus.” She is not amused.

I go back to our table. My friend Akshat is wearing a pink shirt, and I tell him that he looks like a giant Indian vagina. He calls me a ‘spear chucker’. This amuses me roundly.

Now I am in my condo, listening to Miles Davis’ Blue in Green and trying not to fuck up my spelling. Loyalty to my friends and my mistrust of white women has cost me pussy again. I am fairly sure that I will die without ever having sex again, and yet…I feel an odd sense of inner peace.

Why in the fucking hell am I telling everyone this?

Peace.

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Sasha(07:28:02) :

LMAO all in a nights work

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london(08:01:23) :

PIMP..good skills..
sweet dreams…

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Admiral Furious(08:25:29) :

Chris that Ethiopian chick can go to hell. I noted the same issue and was equally pissed upon noticing her bullshit.

The highlight of the night was after I relieved myself and attempted to wash my hands when I encountered a pair of cave women standing 5’10″+ (one blonde and one brunnette) in front of the dual sinks outside of the multigender stalls. The blone was steadily chit chatting to the blonde about how there were not high roller dudes in the place (aka not washing her hands) while the brunnette was fixing her earrings. Both were not utilizing the sinks and BOTH took note of me standing behind them waiting to use cleanse my hands after doing a number 1. What set me over the top was when I saw the blonde roll her eyes at my presence in the mirror and continued on with her utterly useless conversation. Thats when my patience diminished… and considering the fact that I was drunk, the elbow I jabbed into her arm to make my way past the blonde chick was probably even harder than I remember it. My ears were ringing, but I do remember her making some statement that included the words “fucking asshole.”

I didn’t care at all. My hands were being washed. But then it gets better.

Not a split second after the water began splashing onto my palms, I head the unmistakable voice of an irritated black woman (possibly with an attitude problem) announce… “EXCUSE ME!” from behind. That was when I looked in the mirror and saw a MOST irritated pair of very attractive black women staring at what was probably very terrified blonde woman. The Brunnette was still looking into the mirror… but had anyone seen how big her eyes were… they would have wished to have a camcorder to record the most epic event. The haste that the two white women used to vacate the remaining sink was absolutely exceptional. Meanwhile, upon arrival at the sink the two black women were MOST friendly to me and we engaged in a very small conversation on rude people who were raised wrong. Within about fifteen seconds, I wished them well and went on my way. They were the MOST friendly black women I encountered in there and further made me love my people. Big up ladies. All black women, big up.

Meanwhile… Chris isn’t the only person drunk. I have no clue how I drove an hour from Rosslyn to Severn with the intoxication level I had. Sheesh. Shame on me.

Notblonde… I guess you aren’t married… and have fallen into the trap you speak of?

Sex in the City is just a justification for white women to act promiscuous. Period. Just like Ferris Beullers Day off is an excuse for white children to lie, cheat, steal, destroy property, and impersonate the law without getting in trouble for it.

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london(08:31:58) :

drinking and driving…
furious….you are an idiot..
am outta here – i feel a lecture coming on… i am FURIOUS…

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Admiral Furious(08:32:35) :

Sorry notblonde… not a trap… just the situation you speak of…

STILL DRUNK!

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Admiral Furious(08:34:31) :

For the record… it wasn’t my fault that Chris ain’t get none tonight. I balled out before anyone else tonight.

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stuffblackpeoplehate(13:32:50) :

Heh, no pimpery involved at all. Chicks just dig neckties, or so it would seem.

I cabbed home and have no fucking idea where my car is.

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Admiral Furious(14:19:50) :

Now that I am more coherent here is my response to London.

Thanks for the obvious. But allow me to retort. Now that I have 5 hours of sleep under my belt and feeling absolutely wonderful, I will admit that the ability to decipher intoxication from fatigue is a dousy. Considering my latest novel being structurally perfect (outside of the blonde talking to the blonde) I think last night was more fatigue than anything.

Regardless, you’re right London. Drunk driving is lunacy.

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Angry ver. 3.2 (Beta)(14:51:30) :

The exchange that just went on is outstanding. Gentlemen, I wish I would have discovered this blog prior to moving away from DC and down to Georgia.

it’s 11 something in the morning and instead of being in class, i’m in the lab reading this.

and to be completely honest i’m having more fun here.

i haven’t been drunk enough to lose my car in awhile. not saying that that needs to happen, but it would be nice.
drunk driving IS lunacy, but i’ve been more tired than drunk a few times and have gotten them confused.

hilarious. i thought i was the only person that thought this upon seeing random white people. that and the fact that they might want to cover me with smallpox infested blankets.

i’m glad ya’ll had a good night.
i was avoiding the papers that i have to write, while having a drunk 21 yr old profess his love for me.

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maya(15:42:27) :

This comments section of this blog has become my favorite was of distracting myself from doing graduate school work. Who the hell needs Facebook?

@ AF – LOL @ your post. White women can be very annoying, but especially so when there’s alcohol involved. The levels of blatant disregard for others and entitlement go through the roof! I am thoroughly enjoying the fact that you gave them a shove and it was immediately followed by forceful black women. LOL, I love my people sometimes, I swear I do.

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Esdotto(15:47:58) :

just a couple things. numero uno: Angry says, “I would expect you to cite some sort of journal or scientific research report (regarding STI/STD rates.) Unfortunately you didn’t do so, which leads me to believe it plausible that you pulled every statistic you named from deep inside your large intestine.”

I almost pooped my pants reading that.

number 2: Mr. Smith says, “Tv’s NY (SITC, Friends, Fraiser) is by NO MEANS anywhere near a 20% representation of the real NY. Even in the richest high tower parts.”

dead on. I’ve been there and touched elbows with the “top 2%.” relationship wise there’s not much of a difference between the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. dipset byrdgang

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Anmarie(15:55:43) :

The pair of ya are grade A silly fools. And that’s what i love about ya.

AF I’ve been trying to tell you black women are dope and friendly unless of course you’re rude and/ annoyning. (most of us have a horrible speak your mind gene that translates into “angry black woman” but it’s really just saying what other people are thinking)

Chris the girl was probably hoping that you’d talk to her all night, but didn’t want to hurt your friend’s feelings when he stepped first. So If you say you have a boyfriend (not that I agree with the lying) you can reject someone with out actually rejecting THEM. She may have had your whole future planned in her mind 10 minutes b4 white boy hollered.

Chris: You’re right, in college I over heard a few white women talking about the plot to take catch Native American men drunk and vunerable in the club. You just remember that when you’re out there.

London you’re absolutely right, shame on AF for driving drunk, but you know what happens to people who state the obvious:

OMG! Priiiiiiceless! This reminds me so much of the nights my best friend and I spent clubbing and parting in DC. It was all hijinks, all the time. The bathroom exchange between the women is CLASSIC. I so have done that before: “You know we know that y’all do NOT wash your hands as a rule. So can you please fucking move?”

Ethopian girls in DC kinda have their heads gassed up, partiall because so many dudes sweat them. They are pretty, but sheesh! A lot of Ethiopian guys would try to holler at me (people thought I was Ethio sometimes and my best guy friend definitely could pass) but a lot of them were very creepy and leery and yellow eyed and no.

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Lolo(16:00:44) :

Um, what IS it with white people that don’t wash their nasty germ ridden hands in a public restroom?? EVERY time I have ever witnessed this disgusting non-habit it has been a uh, non-minority that doesn’t avail themselves of the cootie removal facility.

EW.

I’m telling you, it must start early too because my son’s friends have to be almost threatened when they’re here. “Can I have some candy?” “Not until you wash your hands.” “But they’re clean….” “Not clean enough to put in the candy jar, they’re not.” The only child that doesn’t have to be reminded just happens to be the one that has actual pigmentation in his skin. Sheeeeeesh.

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Anmarie(16:16:41) :

I don’t know Esdotto and Mr. Smith about that top 2% (know idea about this number).

In highschool my girl used to work as a nanny afterschool for these stanky flithy rich white people. I mean the wife didn’t lift one finger to work yet she had a nanny. So of course taking interest in the two smart, well spoken, inner city black girls (amazing :-O) they’d invite us to several functions and parties in the Hamptons (what displays of wealth). Damn it, I was a puppet in their theater. Not to fear by junior year I stop hanging with them after all tons of yummy free food wasn’t worth my soul.

In their world the only people of color were the help. They lived in a classist bubble devoid of color.
So really when these shows leave out the color, it’s the white people hiding their dependency on servitude.

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Anmarie(16:19:17) :

Lolo are you sending me those kids or not?

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maya(16:29:18) :

“…but a lot of them were very creepy and leery and yellow eyed and no.”

I cannot stop laughing. I thought I was the only person who noticed that.

Anmarie- Excellent perspective. Maybe because I never hung in multi-culti circles since preschool, I have a skewed perception. But I always assumed that if one were to try and holler at a member of another race, they knew they were taking a chance that said person may not date interracially. I always tell White guys that I have a boyfriend. I’m not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings, nor do I think it’s appropriate to say ‘I don’t date white men’. That can lead to a long convo that I wouldn’t want to have in a bar, club or party.

Or like you said. she may have already peeped Chris and liked him better. I don’t like that “Why haven’t you tried to talk to me” shit. Sounds like one of those wack lines from Cosmo. When said magazine suggested that a “hot” way to get a guys attention at a party was to grab him and kiss him squarely on the mouth. I knew they weren’t talking to me.

That’s word as well, Anmarie. Like I said before, I don’t expect there to be Black people on Sex In The City because if you did a show about my personal life, all the White people would be waiters, passerby and fellow bar/store/restauraunt/gym patrons. There may be a “very special episode” where I get drunk and yell something at a gentrifier.

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Lady(17:08:58) :

number 2: Mr. Smith says, “Tv’s NY (SITC, Friends, Fraiser) is by NO MEANS anywhere near a 20% representation of the real NY. Even in the richest high tower parts.”

Fraiser was in Seattle.. not that that changes your point.. but you know us black folks can’t resist correcting someone..

There are a lot of yt folks in the company I work for, and nan one of them take the time to pass some soap and water over their nasty ass hands when leaving the rest room *even* when they do a #2 which disgusts me to no end. Here I am pumping out the paper towel before i even wash my hands, lather my hands front and back, take that paper towel, dry my hands, use it to turn the water off and open the door.. and they look at me like *I’m* the crazy one. I’ve seen both my bosses come straight from the stall, check their hair/clothes, sniff and then walk out. These are the same dirty hags who come in with ‘homebaked goods’ offering us some. I take one to be polite, and then when they leave my cube i toss that fucker in the garbage. If they’re like that at work God only knows wtf they do at home. This is also why i avoid pot lucks at work..

Unless your Diddy or someone like him, if a white person invites you to the Hamptons you’re bound to be some kind of experiment/play thing for them and their friends. They’ll ask where you’re from, you say some where urban like ‘The Bronx’ in my case and they’ll get all wide eyed and say ‘Ohh, now how was that growing up?’. You will not get your urban thrills through me yt. Besides, seeing how some of them live (see: waste food/money/time/engergy) makes me sick.

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Anmarie(17:30:07) :

So sue me I was 15 I said I caught on later. But yeah wastful isn’t the word. Mounds and mounds of uneaten food. At this Christmas party there was a huge pile of goody bags for the kids, each containing 5 dollar bills. One shrewd little rich boy figured this out and began collecting bills shamelessly from other kids bags when they weren’t looking. I learned a few lessons that about the rich yts this day.

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Lolo(18:44:20) :

@Lady
See, now when people see me do all that I know they’re thinking “OCD uptight orientals” while I’m thinking “oh god, please don’t ever touch anything that comes close to me and hello, WASH THE BACKS OF YOUR DOO DOO HANDS TOOOOOOOO.”

@Anmarie,
Well, I’m trying to choose between a bus ticket to your house or military school right now. Calgon, take me away!

I always thought that show is horrible and I always doubted the intelligence of those that enjoy the show. Friends is pure shit as well. At least on Seinfeld (a far superior comedy that is still funny after watching it 200 times) you saw New York..all kinds of different nationalities and various recurring characters throughout every episode.

I would like to see that Charlotte sex tape tho jus for curiousity’s sake

the 2% comes from the term “wealthiest 2%” which is synonymous with “wealthiest 1%.” Since i haven’t spent any time with Gates, or Buffet, i didn’t want to use the latter and be corrected by the nitpicking Negroes that frequent these blogs.

I, too, have been to the Hamptons, and to some of those tier 1 Manhattan nightclubs during my undergrad. I stand by my statement. Based on my experience, their sex lives are just as lame as the average person’s.

I am not ignorant enough to assume that all rich whites are accepting of other races, but I did see a great many that were.

12042008

-Nomad by Nature-(20:29:31) :

Wow…I never thought I’d live to see the day that a heterosexual man would admit to watching SITC for whatever reason.:( How embarrassing to the male race.

12042008

london(20:41:54) :

furious and anmarie..
i have really good reason to jump on drink drivers…
but am now over this morning… and you are not over here and pose no threat to me and mine…
now.. of the shows that we get over here i watch house, shark, boston legal and all of the various csi’s at the moment..
nothing has caught me ‘soapwise’ since dominique devereux and joan collins in dynasty.. i have the boxed sets when i need a fix.. nothing comes close…
i have a healthy respect for the wayans fam.. and have caught the hughleys when at friends houses.. hughley is cool.. i kind of like half and half.. but these are all kids shows… ooh and two and a half men makes me chuckle too..
these shows are well written because kids are really fussy – it’s either funny or not…. this is ignored for adults… writers should take note..
most of hollywood’s writers should have been culled in the writers strike.. they are blind to their audience…

12042008

Anmarie(20:52:26) :

Hi London

i have really good reason to jump on drink drivers…
but am now over this morning… and you are not over here and pose no threat to me and mine…

I know London you’re right. Besides i don’t pose a threat to anyone. I don’t drive and I’ve never hit thing while in motion but my own ass on roller blades.

OMG! I love House, I can watch his cranky ass solve problems all day. That;s good American programming.

Dang there I go cussing again.

12042008

Tamara(22:27:53) :

@London

I love love love House, but I hate how angry Omar Epps is. I mean all the characters have their nuances with me, but damn brother must you be so angry all the time.

I also love Psych because Dule Hill is my boo for life, and it’s incredibly funny. The bits I have caught of Two and Half Men that I caught were funny too, but I never know when it comes on.

But my real obsession is with The Office. I heart that show forever and always. Matter of fact, let me go watch it online now.

Question: were ALL the women on the show hoes? I know Samantha was and I know Charlotte wasn’t. I don’t recall Old Uglyface having a lot of jumpoffs and that leaves Carrie. Was Carrie a hoe? (I didn’t watch enough to be 100% sure and I am also curious about what the popular definition of hoe is these days).

13042008

Angry ver. 3.2 (Beta)(00:08:06) :

Omar Epps is mad on House because of his superior doctoring skills and intellect, and the lack of responsibility that the rest of the cast (caucasian) seem to show when dealing with patients. It’s good television.

13042008

london(07:29:20) :

house is the don.. love omar epps’s character.. he doesn’t strike me as angry.. the male australian doctor is a pussy.. he comes off to me a whiny…. which would make omar epps character a bit more ballsy in my mind?.. maybe..

and @ anmarie.. the final comment wasn’t at you… you go girl on your blades.. i gave those up after i busted my tailbone landing on grass (strategic and tactical fall).. am too old for that stuff and have bills.. (am sounding like my mother so had better go now…)
it’s a sunny day here in london and am off to enjoy it…..
enjoy yours wherever you are

13042008

Anmarie(13:31:11) :

Omar Epps is sexy, His character is not angry in general, just at work. Do you see the asshole he has to work with?

13042008

Admiral Furious(14:32:16) :

I’m sorry… I know this has almost nothing to do with this topic, and probably should be applied to the Viacom or Ohio SUCKS topics, but this here has made me so incessantly pissed… I want everyone to see this.

Who ever does the writing for House is my hero. Hugh Laurie’s personality and ability to really get into the character helps phenomenally, but the writing… Omar Epps can be a little annoying on the show, but IMO it’s for good reason. That’s my favorite show right now.. i live to see how House is going to insult someone next..

13042008

maya(16:09:49) :

@AF: i think the part that pissed me off most is the fact that they tried to blame this dumb shit on chapelle.

13042008

ify(16:57:03) :

@ maya
I know!!! As if Chapelle was the one who created the Klan. Because the we all know that the concept of white supremacy all started with Clayton Bigsby.

That Klan thing makes NO SENSE at all. Next thing you know they’re going to say that hip hop is responsible for them saying nigger and ho … oh wait.

Fools.

13042008

Seven(20:57:32) :

I see I’m totally late for this discussion, but I must say I love Sex and the City. Now, let me say that I just discovered the show last year thanks to TBS airing it every night of the week; but I appreciated the show from a ‘colorblind’ aspect in that there are alot of successful women in the world who go through similar experiences when it comes to men. All in all, I must say the post was quite funny and I’ll add that “foot” remark to my mental library when it comes to insults for SJP. BTW-the movie comes and the end of May. :-)

13042008

Anmarie(21:10:28) :

If you google looks like a foot, Sara jessica Parkers names comes up all over the place.

Ahhh red necks. Did anyone see the Ali G episode where he sang “hate the jews” songs with red necks in a local bar? Damn damn damn red necks.

13042008

Admiral Furious(21:19:02) :

LOOKS LIKE A FOOT!!!! LMFAO LMFAO LMFAO LMFAO LMFAO!!!!!

13042008

Seven(21:22:41) :

OMG! I just did, I am so late to this foot business…Thanks for the tip Anmarie!

13042008

maya(22:10:56) :

i respect chapelle so much for bowing out of his show at the height of his success because of a sense of responsibility to his people. i think our generation last lost the concept of “there’s some things that you just don’t do/say” around white folk – and this example with the Klan, or Imus are perfect examples of why you can’t tell them fools shit.

this white i work with is absolutely enthralled with the “stuff educated black people like,” site and has OD’d on the number of contributions he’s made to the site in trying to classify “educated” blacks. he event went so far as to ask me, “don’t educated black people like barbeque chicken dinners?” obviously looking puzzled, i was like, “wha..?” to which my other co-worker (also black) says, “you mean, ‘cookouts?'” enthusiastically, he replies, “YES! cookouts! well, wait – thought cookouts were something uneducated black people liked…educated black people like barbeque chicken dinners…with wine and stuff.” it took everything in me not to ask him for a running list of the difference between Jews and the Goyim.

I agree Maya. It’s not satire anymore if people are laughing at face value and not getting the message. Most of the readers of this site got it, but most younger Black kids and White folks in general missed the whole point. I feel the same way about the Boondocks. The strip was brilliant and McGruder is a genius, no doubt. But the show lacks most of the strip’s intelligence and seems to rely on a lot of ignorant jokes to get laughs. Again, the White boys watching Adult Swim do NOT see the irony and social criticism, but rather “That nigga Riley is a FOOL!”.

PS- No one answered my question: was Carrie Bradshaw a hoe?????

13042008

maya(22:29:41) :

…equally as mindboggling was the time that this fool asked me about this car accident i was in. noticing the rental car parked out front in place of my usual jetta, he asks what happened. after recanting the story, he asked where the accident happened. i’m wondering if the accident’s location is what prompted this shit to come out of his mouth. he asked, “how old did he look?” i was like, “oh, not that old…about our age” [the white boy is a year older than me, so he’s about 24] “oh. so what type of guy was it that hit you?” puzzled and wholly unprepared for the ignorance that was about to follow, i say, “huh? what do you mean?” “well, was it a respectable guy, or was it like…a gangsta???”

yes, he said “gangsta,” not “gangster.” damn you, 50 cent.

still unable to rebound quickly from the stupidity i was being assaulted with, i said, “i’m not sure i understand.” i also wanted to trap this fucker into saying what he obviously REALLY meant, instead of using these caricatures of black men. so he says, straight face and all: “i mean…you know, was he like, a gangsta?! you know, one of those guys who drive with their seats waaaay back?”

i wanted to laugh at how ridiculous the question was, and also at his pronunciation of the word “gangsta,” but then he would’ve thought this dumb shit was cute. so i masked the most distasteful look i could muster, and said, “no, he wasn’t.”

“oh. so he didn’t give you any problems, then?”

aftert that, i just turned my chair around and went back to (non) work. i wonder if he thought on top of fucking up my car (and my weekend) ole dude was gonna rob me, too. i wonder if white people use their Britas to filter common sense and social etiquette out of their drinking water, too.

13042008

maya(22:34:13) :

Sister Toldja:

I’m not sure if you could classify her as a “hoe” (whatever that means these days.) Of all of the SATC characters, I would say she had the most consistent amount of monogamous sex because she was in a relationship with Mr. Big for so long, and Aiden after that…and then the old guy (worst part of the season.) You didn’t see her venturing out to bed other guys, or even really dating a lot of other characters like the other 3. And even Charlotte (the brunette) was conservative. Carrie (SJP) moreso represented the women in a relationship with a man who couldn’t wholly commit when she was with Big, and then the woman who isn’t 100% satisfied in an otherwise great relationship when she was with Aiden.

13042008

knaturalbeauty(23:49:56) :

In order of Hoeness:
Biggest Hoe = Samantha, Second Biggest Hoe = Miranda, then Charlotte, then Carrie. Carrie’s hoe-factor, or lack thereof, may be in direct correlation to her footfacedness.

14042008

Anmarie(02:32:29) :

S. Toldja, I’m gonna try to answer that question.

They were liberated, not hoes, that was the point of the show. Please. Labels are the least of their worries in the real world.

You know they were locked in by the desire to find love and marriage, locked in my the desire to have the best material possessions, locked in by the desire to socially climb into new york’s top 2%, locked into bad relationships. BUT FREEEEEEE! Because they had tons of casual sex in the STD generation. (OMG -the show where Samantha is nervous about having her FIRST! HIV test after she’s slept with all of NYC is sickening. How can you be all powerful about your sex life and be “in charge and liberated” and you don’t know your freaking HIV status. In the real word HIV is not the only worry you have when you’re slapping gentials with every cutie you meet, there are STDs that are transmitted by skin to skin contact. Condoms only cover the shaft of a penis)
I get annoyned with the message the show is trying to sell me: sex = freedom. Even if it doesn’t mean fulfillment or happiness or contentment. Or if it means warts and herpies. I wouldn’t call them hoes, I don’t believe those terms, but the behavior was self destructive. Other than that it’s always fun to watch a train wreck. Talking foots are funny to me, what can I say.
I’m terrible. Lord help me.

Oh great, now I’ve got yet another brilliant piece of funny in my mind that I’m going to have to repress the next time I’m at the PTA … I’m going to know who’s got the “common sense and etiquette filter” in their Brita. I could make a mint by marketing the “dumbass filters” for people to slip into office break rooms.

Carrie was a skank. Paris Hilton is a skank. They think they have social legitimacy and are trendsetters and that spreading their legs is some sort of gift but are completely oblivious to their own hideoma and self destructiveness. I like the brit’s word, “slag” also.

My old lady crankiness says that far too many people seem to have absolutely no sense of shame any more and the rest of us suffer for it. Or at least I do when I’m forced to witness the sheer repulsiveness of their skankitude.

14042008

Jamal(03:21:56) :

Shit!! I’m a white guy from Canada, and this blog taught me more about a show I never cared about, went out of my way to avoid, and happy I did, in ten minutes than the actual show ever did.

Never saw the attraction to Sarah J. Parker. Shit, they even made a perfume made after her. Which sorry asses would buy that crap? Not only do they have a sense of smell, but more disturbing, a sense of self!

The whole Anglo-saxon white cultureless-culture that is shoveled on TV every night is to sanitize people of any culture all together.

This is why they fear and loath Latinos. They fear their culture taking over. Someone kill Jorge (George) Lopez!!

I hope every non-Anglo American breeds like rabbits over the next 25 years and turn it into a mirror of the united nations, instead of the piss-pot it is now.

Anmarie, I definitely felt the producers/writers/actors trying to sell the notion of sexual liberation as opposed to whorishness (or in Samantha’s case, the liberation to be a happy whore). The liberated woman in me appreciated that in the episodes I saw, while also appreciating that libertation does not always mean true freedom, nor fulfilment. As free as they were, they still seemed to be always searching, just like the ladies who are more discerning in their choice of lovers.

My comfortable place is somewhere in between the Carries and the conservatives: free enough to enjoy sex-without-attachment, yet wise enough to know that, like Godiva chocolate, that is not an indulgence to partake in regularly. I suppose it was cool that they eschewed the notion of married with children by 3_ years old….but know they will be scaping me off of the bottom of the Hudson if I am damn near 50 like Samantha and still chasing tail!

Epilogue: not only was Miranda dick-evaporatingly ugly, she was pretty darn lesbionic, no? She was like a feminine gym teacher. Or perhaps just a feminine man….

Let me say this:
1) You are the first white man from Ive known named Jamal.

2) You are quite an anomaly

14042008

Anmarie(04:00:41) :

Jamal is my really my ex boyfriend trying to be funny, Jammy tell them that you’re not white! Stop playing.

Thanks Sista Toldja. Yep I think we should definately enjoy all of life, but we have to be smart in this day and age, So folks get a back ground check (STD status) on your partners serious or casual.
Okay PSA done. :-)

14042008

Lolo(04:33:29) :

Okay, first of all ~ all you straight guys put a lead apron over your area before clicking the link or you’re going to be completely evaporated. Second, I’ve been waiting and wondering when one of you would spill the beans but since none of you were brave enough http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article95340.ece

I’e done my bit and can go and drink myself to sleep.

14042008

london(06:01:02) :

lead apron over your area *dead*
blaming a black man for some klan fuckery…
you can hear it now.. ‘chapelle made me do it’!
what a twat…

and i wasnt speaking French. That was the dialect of Kreyol (or Creole) that my family (Creole from Lousiana. Not Haiti) speak. Goodness..

By the way, maybe you not knowing about those stats is precisely the reason why they have spread so much in the community.

14042008

Laurel(22:35:55) :

That show was depressing in so many ways. The creators tried to gloss over the dark reality with the nightlife, makeup, expensive clothes, and somewhat attractive people but none of that could hide the fact that these were four desperate white “chicks” pushing 35-40 who were just plain unsatisfied and dismayed with the way their lives turned out. It straight up scared me.

16042008

Ms. Kristine(16:02:40) :

I can’t stop laughing So HARD @ “coontastical”! I will be using that word more often than not; from this point forward!

LMFBAO!!! I HATE SEX & THE CITY!!! I rather listen to chocolate rain on blast and repeat than watch that show. But I love me some Seinfeld! And omg tooo funnny@ itchy vagina wtf! and Sara Jessica Parker looks like a damn rat with her wirey looking hair and the red head OMG she looks like the Chucky of real life. SMH BUt if you think about it Sex & the city is just another version of Girlfriends just with white girls. :-)

17042008

ninamosley(05:03:43) :

i liked the show during the first season. but once i couldn’t afford HBO..i didn’t miss it. time-waster

i love seinfield! thank goodness for syndication! i especially love george costanza! “cantstandcha”

18042008

Stephanie(15:34:38) :

What really bothers me about this is how everyone talks about how pretty/ugly these actresses are, but there is little or no discussion about their talent. Just a thought.

Random fact: Married With Children was created and written by a black man. I funny intend to write my dis on that show. American Studies say what!

something must be wrong with me because I LOVE sex and the city… I can’t wait for May 30th for the movie and just might see it more then once… I have the entire series season 1 thru 6 on dvd and can watch it all day… I don’t know why I love it so much… I really don’t:/

Yeah, despite this extremely funny post (the 4 itchy vaginas, LOVE it!), I still can’t wait until the movie premiere on May 30th!

Oh well!

5062008

DottyWine(08:36:02) :

I hate this show. Isn’t it strange that the lady who’s maybe 50 years old is the only attractive female cast member?

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l&l(20:01:23) :

you’re a fucking racist yourself !!! so stop weeping that there are’nt a lot of black people involved in the show
and the fucking crap what black people see & what white people see => BULLSHIT

and for all the people who are saying that they are ugly : fuck you do you think they even care ??? they’ve become extremely rich with this show so even if they’d read this they still wouldn’t give a fuck

“What really bothers me about this is how everyone talks about how pretty/ugly these actresses are, but there is little or no discussion about their talent.”

Well, I rather think that the point is that the roles they’re playing are those of nubile sex goddesses, and therefore their appearance is relevant. To point out that they’re rather awful proxies for whatever vicarious fantasy existence that their audience indulges in is perfectly valid given that it’s actually central to the plot of the show. You could (for example) cast Michael Cera as a Terminator if you liked, but in so doing, you’d open yourself to the same sort of criticism. Sometimes in acting appearance does matter, because it affects suspension of disbelief.

And besides, it may be true that there’s little discussion of the talent of the 4 main actresses but it certainly isn’t as though their appearance is even the primary complaint that most people have with them. I mean, observations such as “the implausibility of four essentially sociopathic women all having very successful careers that involve – get this – dealing with other people” (which have comprised the majority of the anti-Sex-and-the-City rants that I’ve been a party to) can hardly be said to focus unfairly on gender.